Bird flu is totally under control, ... The outbreak ... occurred in one area and has been contained. Of course, we need to be careful, we need to do our homework well.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I talk to them, and wherever a need arises, we do everything we can to meet those needs.